I am the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor at SMU, the Chair of the Department of Economics, a research fellow at IZA@LISER, a fellow at GLO, a member of the HCEO Global Working Group, and senior co-editor of Advances in Econometrics. My research focuses on microeconometric methods, with applications spanning primarily labor, environmental, and health economics. I am particularly obsessed with measurement error. I teach courses in econometrics and labor economics.
Research Areas
- Microeconometrics.
- Labor Markets.
- Environment.
- Political Economy.
Latest Publication
“On the (Mis)Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator,” with Marc Bellemare. Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics.
RECENT & Upcoming Talks
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK, July 6-8, 2026
European Summer Meeting (ESEM), Dublin, Ireland, August 17-21, 2026
Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference, Bournemouth, UK, September 7-10, 2026
Southern Economic Association, Houston, TX, November 21-23, 2026
Current Projects
“(Don’t) Walk this Way: The Econometrics of Crosswalks.”
“Eligibility Screening and Means Testing in Consumer Bankruptcy,” with Nate Pattison.
“On the (Mis)Use of Composite Indices: with Applications in Political Economy,” with Alfredo Paloyo.
“A Stein-Like Double Machine Learning Estimator,” with Shuo Qi.
“Unaccompanied Migrant Youth and Child Labor Violations: Accounting for Nonclassical Measurement Error,” with Suchetana Das.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson